Stonekeep

Stonekeep is a first-person fantasy dungeon crawler with an appropriately unpleasant central premise: the kingdom has been attacked, evil has taken over, and you are expected to clean up the mess. Naturally, nobody mentions overtime pay. The game combines exploration, combat, puzzles and character development, sending you through dark corridors filled with monsters, traps and enough suspicious-looking doors to make you question every architectural decision ever made. Its presentation was a major attraction at the time, with digitized characters and atmospheric environments giving the adventure a more cinematic feel than many traditional dungeon crawlers. Combat is real-time, while magic and equipment add some welcome variety. Stonekeep can occasionally be clunky, but its gloomy atmosphere and theatrical personality give it plenty of charm. It feels like a dungeon crawl that decided it wanted to be a fantasy movie as well.